Active COVID-19 cases climb to 118, 4 in ICU

The Ministry of Health reported on Sunday that nine more persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus within a 24-hour period.
Consequently, active cases in Guyana are now 118. This includes four patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the remaining persons in isolation, that is, four persons in institutional isolation and the other 110 persons in home isolation.
There is no one in institutional quarantine, according to the Ministry’s updated COVID-19 Dashboard on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll remains at 1285. The last fatality was recorded on November 25 after a 42-year-old male from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) died.
On the other hand, some 70,179 persons in the country have recovered from the life-threatening – seven more recoveries than the previous day.
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Guyana over two years ago, a total 705,700 tests have been conducted countrywide and of this, some 32,816 males and 38,766 females were found to be positive.
Of the nine new cases recorded on Sunday, eight were from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) and the remaining one case from Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice).
Back in March, the Guyana Government had removed most restrictions as the country recovers from the pandemic and return to normalcy.
Nevertheless, health authorities continue to urge persons to get vaccinated and for those qualified to get their booster shots as an added layer of protection against the virus.
According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) recent figures, some 636,440,663 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 6,606,624 deaths.
In the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 181,462,467 while the death toll in the region has gone up to 2,866,251.
As it relates to vaccination against COVID-19, WHO also reported that a total of 12,959,275,260 doses have been administered worldwide.